Evaluating Flow Marks on a Colored Housing
The supplied case describes evaluating a precolored flame-retardant antistatic ABS formulation after flow patterns appeared during a customer molding trial.
Discuss Your ApplicationProject record
- Project requirement
- Review a specified color, surface appearance and electrical behavior on a molded housing.
- What the processor observed
- An initial trial with color powder added before molding showed uneven patterns.
- What changed in the trial
- The processor evaluated a precolored compound incorporating the color in the compounding stage.
- Results
- ANSUYI visually inspected the revised housings and reported improved appearance in the observed areas.
- Conditions and limits
- The formulation and preparation route changed together. The case does not establish one cause or a quantified gloss improvement.